establishment
/ɪˈstæb·lɪʃ·mənt/ n [C] (POWERFUL PEOPLE)Definition
› the people who have most of the power within government or society or in a particular business or activity: the diplomatic/educational/literary establishment › An establishment is a particular place of business: Visitors come to shop in the fashionable new establishments downtown.
(Definition of establishment n (POWERFUL PEOPLE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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